Dastardly melodramatics — the stage kind — in Yosemite

Villains, heroes, distressed maidens and a boisterously hissing crowd? Melodrama is the original interactive theater experience — and you can revel in the melodramatics of “Bonnie Belle’s Best Bloomers” when the historic Golden Chain Theatre stages its latest on Aug. 10 at the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad, just south of Yosemite National Park’s south gate.

Enjoy a big barbecue dinner, then board the logger steam train for a ride to the show, which dabbles in gold rush lore as well as Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Yosemite Grant Act 150 years ago. Cheering and booing are encouraged. Tickets are $55 for adults, $27.50 for kids. And if that date doesn’t work for you, the train company does other barbecue-train ride events too. (But you’ll have to cheer and boo on your own.)